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Peacebuilding
Anne Niyuhire

Great achievement

In Burundi, women’s organisations want to see enforced a constitutional quota for female leaders at all levels of government

Ebola epidemic
Joanne Liu

“Run into the burning building”

Doctors without Borders: Ebola epidemic in west Africa requires international action

Civil war
Martina Sabra

Invisible victims

Exiled Syrians help fellow citizens in Jordan in private rehabilitation centres

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Participation and equal opportunities

Relevant reading on equal opportunities for people with disabilities

Habitat development
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

“Future development will be urban”

With Connective Cities, a new Internet platform helps networking of municipalities worldwide

International civil society
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Reaching out to young people

For two years, Engagement Global has been working for development on municipal level, and is drawing a balance

Relevant reading
Nadja Meisterhans

An alternative model of governance

The post-2015 agenda should be based on an alternative model of global governance

Civil society
Friedrich Kaufmann
Winfried Borowczak

Cooperation, not ­instrumentalisation

Support for civil society in developing countries is not a trivial matter

Civil society
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Protective encryption

Ways to protect online activists’ free speech from government repression

Argentina
Sebastián Vargas

Direct democracy

After the financial crash in Argentina in 2001, citizens organised direct democracy at the local level

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
How to end hunger
Why food security needs both peacebuilding and livelihood development
Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving
Why sport is an effective tool for development
Addressing gender-based violence in Colombia

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders
How development policy is misunderstood
How GIZ gets young people moving

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders
How development policy is misunderstood
How GIZ gets young people moving